Matt Jonns

The Lightning Group

The Lightning Group builds digital ventures with startups, investors, and SMEs - combining product, capital, talent, and AI to drive growth.

Over the past decade, we’ve launched 100+ digital products, backed 40+ startups, raised millions in funding, and built high-performing teams that take ideas from zero to scale.

What began as Founder + Lightning - a product and capital partner for early-stage startups - has evolved into a wider platform of connected services:

🔹 The Lightning Group, a digital studio built for ambitious SMEs 
🔹 Founder + Lightning - our early-stage studio, investment, and fundraising arm

What The Lightning Group Offers

1. Digital Strategy & Product Execution
The Lightning Group works with founders and leadership teams to shape digital product roadmaps, validate ideas quickly, and launch AI-powered platforms built for growth.

2. Fundraising & Capital Advisory
Through Founder + Lightning Capital, we raise and syndicate rounds - connecting startups with angels, family offices, and VCs, as well as investing via our own fund. 

3. Flexible Talent & Offshore Delivery
We scale engineering and product capability through embedded specialists and offshore teams - fully aligned to internal tools, processes, and culture.

4. AI Discovery & Implementation
From automation to AI-first product design, we define and build AI use cases that drive efficiency, unlock margin, and set companies apart.

5. Venture Studio Design
We advise investors, corporates, and family offices on how to structure, launch, and operate high-impact venture studios - with real-world operating experience behind every recommendation.

Who We Work With

* Startups preparing to launch or raise


* Scaleups looking to modernise or move faster


* Investors and family offices building new ventures


* SMEs rethinking digital and AI strategy



If you’re building something bold - or investing in those who are - let’s talk.

Founder & CEO

Umbrella Music Academy

Founder

Umbrella Music

Founder 

Investing in, and building, tech companies with non-technical founders | Founder and CEO @ Founder + Lightning

I build and back ambitious ventures - with product, capital, and talent.

It started with helping to digitise my family’s business 15 years ago. Since then, I’ve worked with 40+ startups to turn ideas into scalable companies - raising millions and launching dozens of products along the way.

That journey led to Founder + Lightning and now The Lightning Group - a group of connected services that help startups, scale-ups, and corporates move faster and smarter.

What we do: 

• Strategy and product development that gets you to launch and beyond 
• Access to capital and investor networks
• High-performing, flexible talent (onshore + offshore)
• Designing and building venture studios 

If you’re looking to raise, launch, or scale - or you’re just figuring out where to start - feel free to reach out.

https://www.founderandlightning.com


(Formerly ucreate.it)

We partner with ambitious, Non-tech Founders and equip them with the team, tools, expertise and scale to build highly successful technology companies

100+ team - 25 portfolio companies - £100 million + valuation - £30 million + raised 

Our offices are in London, Cardiff, Chandigarh and Kraków

A big shoutout to two of our portfolio companies– Fresh Car and Naurt.

They’ve  achieved some huge successes recently:

Fresh Car: 

- Launched their mobile mechanics service in Manchester.
- Had a record Q3 with £1.24m customer bookings.
- They recently launched their new operator APP, which transforms the way that their network of ~150 mobile car care businesses operates. 
- Their SMART repair business is growing about 100% YoY and now makes up over 35% of revenue, having only launched less than 3 years ago it hit £160K in October. 

And one of our 2023 investments, Naurt: 

- Launched in 10 new countries over the last 10 weeks, with another 20 planned before February.
- Partnered with HERE Technologies.
- Continues to support Blue Light Maps with data that helps emergency services reach the right entrance faster, saving precious seconds.
- Plus, they’re hiring as they continue to grow into 2026.

Well done Sam Brennan (Fresh Car), Jack Maddalena 📍 (Naurt) on your recent success. 

It’s a joy to watch businesses grow with wonderful founders at the top.

#portfolioupdates #investment #founderspotlight

Venture Studio Founder & Startup Investor.

The quickest way to kill a recently funded startup? 

Hire too fast. 

I see it constantly. Founders close a funding round and immediately go on a hiring spree. 

Six months later, they're looking around the office thinking "who are all these people?"

I was speaking with Jack Hopkins from one of our portfolio companies, Tradeaze LTD, about this recently and they plan to do the opposite. 

In total, they’ve raised £3m. Their natural reaction might have been to hire as quickly and as many as possible. Their demand is high enough. 

Their mistake could have been: 

Raise £3M and hire 5-10 people across multiple functions. Marketing coordinator, sales development rep, operations manager, customer success specialist, another engineer, maybe a designer.

But instead, Jack told me this: "Every hire needs to move the needle. Are they absolutely crucial? Right person, right role, right time."

Their approach: 

Instead of hiring 4-5 recruiters, they hired engineers to build internal recruitment tools. One high-salary engineer eliminates the need for multiple medium-salary roles.

That's systems thinking. One strategic hire that creates leverage across the entire organisation.

I love it because they're even staggering hires. Not just because of cash flow, but because they want to see the impact of each addition before making the next decision.

Every hire changes your company culture. Every hire increases complexity. Every hire needs to 10x their cost in value creation.

The founders who survive the next 18 months will be the ones who hired strategically, not rapidly.

The question every post-funding founder should ask: "If I could only make one hire this quarter, what would move us forward the most?"

Tradeaze is asking that question, and it shows. 

What's your hiring philosophy after raising funding?

#hiring #startup #funding #tradeaze #strategy

LPs don’t need VCs anymore. And that changes everything.

Here's the structure that's existed for decades:

LPs provide the capital. VCs source the deals, do diligence, pick winners. VCs take 2% management fee + 20% of profits.

LPs don't have time or expertise to find and evaluate startups. VCs do. Worth the fee.

But what happens when AI can screen deals, analyse financials, predict outcomes, and surface the best opportunities faster than any analyst?

The analytical work that justifies a big chunk of VC fees becomes automated. Deal sourcing becomes easier. Pattern recognition becomes software.

But who has leverage in that world?

If an LP has access to the same tools, the same data, the same predictive models - why do they need the VC firm?

They could source directly. Invest directly and keep the full upside.

We're already seeing:

Rolling funds that look more like platforms than partnerships. Syndicates replacing traditional funds. LPs doing more direct deals. AI tools analysing thousands of companies in seconds.

The role of the VC starts to compress down to what AI can't do: 

Actually helping portfolio companies win and adding value. 

Everything else becomes a commodity.

#venturecapital #limitedpartner #traditionalfunds #funding

Netflix is purposely making us dumb. 

Because they know you're not watching. It’s both horrifying and fascinating.

More and more, Netflix has been telling screenwriters to have characters "announce what they're doing" so viewers who have the show on in the background can still follow along.

They call it "second screen" content. TV designed for people scrolling their phones while Netflix plays.

Here's what that actually looks like. Real dialogue from a Lindsay Lohan film:

"Tomorrow, I'm marrying Paul Kennedy."

"Fine. After this job is over, I'm off to Bolivia to photograph an endangered tree lizard."

Horrible dialogue that wouldn’t make a single person look up from their phone.

On purpose. 

Directors have even told producers that a scene isn’t “second screen enough” and to dumb it down. 

The metric they care about? 

Completion rates. Keep the show running. Doesn't matter if you're fully engaged. Just don't turn it off.

Of course, they still make shows you cannot take your eyes off– Baby Reindeer, Squid Games, Black Doves.

But more and more of it is becoming dumb. 

Because they know you’re more likely to pick dumb content if you also want to scroll. 

I really do think we need to be careful we aren’t all being dumbed down. It’s much easier to ignore what’s really important when our minds are filled with brain rot !

#netflix #attentioneconomy #consciousconsumption

I've worked with hundreds of companies over 10 years. 

I was wrong about what makes them succeed.

I used to preach execution above everything else. "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything." Classic founder wisdom.

But after watching some founders grind for seven years on mediocre ideas while others stumble into something that just flies, I've changed my mind.

Execution still matters massively of course it does. It's still the number one trait in successful founders I see. But some ideas are just better than others, and that difference is also enormous.

The painful pattern I see: first-time founders rarely have the maturity to kill their idea fast enough. They dig in with determination, work on something for five, seven years that never quite works.

Meanwhile, someone else trips over a great idea early and nails it.

I've known founders who failed twice, then made it big, then failed again. If it was purely about execution ability, that pattern wouldn't exist. Sometimes it really is just the idea.

Here's what makes this harder now: AI can execute ideas faster than ever. AI can write your early code, design your brand, draft your copy. The execution advantage is compressing.

Which means the quality of the idea becomes the primary differentiator.

Most founders spend 20% of their time thinking about whether they're solving the right problem, and 80% executing on whatever they decided in week one.

Should it be the opposite ?

Ideas are currency again. Not because execution doesn't matter, but because everyone can in theory execute now.

Are you executing brilliantly on the wrong idea?

#founders #startups #ideas #execution #strategy

The Yellow Pages could have built Google.

Blockbuster could have built Netflix.

Why didn’t they?

Because incumbents rarely invent the next wave - even when they already have all the pieces.

👉  The Yellow Pages had the listings, the advertisers, the data.

👉  Blockbuster had the customers, the brand, and the distribution network.

What they lacked wasn’t vision or capital - it was incentive.

When you’re making billions from the current model, every new idea gets filtered through one question:

→ “Will this protect or threaten our existing revenue?”

Startups ask different ones:

→ “Will this work?” “Do people want this?” “Can we survive long enough to find out?”

No quarterly earnings calls. No internal politics. No fear.

That’s the innovator’s dilemma in action, and it’s why true disruption almost always starts on the edges.

We’ve learned this first-hand.

We still love early-stage companies - they move fast, test ideas, and take risks.

But we’re equally excited by more established businesses that already have brand, data, customers and profit - and can now supercharge all of it with technology and AI.

Those are the companies that can win big in the next decade:

The ones bold enough to disrupt themselves before someone else does.
The tools are there. The opportunity is huge.

All that’s missing is the willingness to use them.

#innovation #strategy #ai #startups #business

Future for incumbents...

Jesse Itzler sold a company to Warren Buffett. Sold another to Coca-Cola for $200M+. Owns part of the Atlanta Hawks. Runs 100-mile ultramarathons.

Safe to say he knows something about pushing limits.

I watched his talk on '5 Mindset Shifts to Reach Your Full Potential' and the advice is deceptively simple - the kind we know but forget when it actually matters.

He's very American in his approach. Bold. Absurdly ambitious. We Brits would call it arrogant. I think we should aspire to more of it.

The 5 shifts:

1) Expect the Pain - Stop being surprised when things get hard
2) How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything - Small decisions create what you're becoming
3) Your Limits Are Self-Imposed - When your brain tells you to stop, you're only at 40%
4) Aim High - Look five feet above your target
5) Never Give Your Pain a Voice - Your mouth is your rudder

Link to the full talk: https://lnkd.in/egyYbg_6 

Really worth your time. His content is a gold mine. 

#businessadvice #mindsethacks #lifehacks

Jesse Itzler Mindset Hacks

Most of us founders are blind. 

We think we can see... but we can’t. 

We're in the middle of the biggest shift ever in building companies. 

We know that, but because we're inside it, most of us founders are treating it like a normal Tuesday.

It's not a normal Tuesday.

The business model you're perfecting right now ? 
Might be obsolete in 18 months. 

The industry you've spent 10 years mastering ? 
Being rewritten by people who've been in it for 10 minutes.

And the insane part is most of us can actually see it happening. We know this is massive. But knowing and acting quickly, whilst maintaining business as usual, are two completely different things. 

It’s hard. 

And understanding the gravity of the situation is a task in and of itself too. 

I'm watching founders optimise their current playbook while the game itself is changing. It's like perfecting your serve while someone's building a tennis robot that never misses.

So here's my uncomfortable question: 
What are you building that still matters in 3 years ?

Not "what are you building that works today." What are you building that survives the shift ?

Because if our answers are "I'll adapt when I need to," I think we’re already too late. 

#businesspivot #adaptordie #futureofbusiness #businessadvice

🎥 Gabriel Isserlis

SuperScout

Upgrade your private location database!

Our software helps you: 
- manage and search through your personal locations database with a map or keywords
- share beautiful shortlists with clients and colleagues
- never do the same research twice! 

Prettier than Dropbox; More secure than SmugMug. More functional than both. 

Built from the ground up for location scouts, managers, and production companies.

Boardwave

The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.

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Tutti

Tutti is building technology to give creatives more time to create.

Today, we are a SaaS enabled marketplace for amazing creative venues - places for film/photo shoots, rehearsals, live-streams, concerts, and more. Traditionally it can take days or weeks to find and book these places, but on Tutti, creators find and message 1000+ spaces in minutes.
Simultaneously, our software helps amazing, unusual venues automate their booking processes and save countless hours on admin.

Learn more: https://www.tutti.space

Tutti was launched at the Founder Institute, London (www.fi.co) in 2018.
Supported by the Rattle Collective 2019-2021 (now closed).
Supported by the CultTech Accelerator in 2023. 

Funding: 
Self funded: 2018 - 2022
Raised £295k from 356 people (crowd) in 2022.

Techstars

Mentor

Founder Institute

Successfully graduated as a member of the London Winter 2018 cohort of the Founder Institute - the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.

Top 3% Graduate & Mentor

Marketplace Risk

Today, the Marketplace Risk platform is the most comprehensive source of education, networking and information sharing for marketplace, sharing, gig, peer-to-peer and collaborative economy startups to learn risk management, trust & safety, compliance and legal strategy necessary to launch, grow and exit successfully. From our blog, e-newsletter, Platform Podcast, Slack Forum and Live Event & Webinar Series, to our conferences and summits, Marketplace Risk is the first and only dedicated resource for startups to take their businesses to the next level.

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Founders Pledge

As a member of the Founders Pledge community I’m committed to leveraging my success for good. Founders Pledge enables entrepreneurs and investors to give back, give more, and give effectively, by pledging a portion of future exit proceeds to charity. They provide charity research, organise events with thought leaders in social impact, and handle the administrative burden of donating to globally.

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OPUS

OPUS is a community that provides opportunities for emerging leaders who recognize the value of peer-to-peer relationships as a powerful catalyst for positive change in the world.

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Home Grown Club

A members' club for entrepreneurs, investors, performance business leaders and the change makers of tomorrow. Happy to refer new members - DM me for details

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Culttech Accelerator

Graduate

Unlocking space for creativity: Founder/CEO of Tutti

My expertise lies at the intersection of creativity and technology, which has inspired 
1. Tutti: "AirBnB for creative spaces" 
2. SuperScout: "Your personal database of locations, supercharged with AI" 

(Side note: I won't accept connection requests unless you give me a compelling reason, or I've met you in person)

With degrees in film making and software development, as well as a decade of work in music, theatre, and photography, and years building tech startups, I have a unique set of insights. 

These have inspired creative technical solutions to problems I have experienced first hand in the creative industries, one of the fastest growing sectors that is already worth more than $3tr to humanity. 

Follow Tutti & SuperScout to see those ideas become a reality

www.tutti.space - www.superscout.ai

Follow me here to get honest stories, insights, and thoughts about the highs, lows, and in-betweens of building a startup: 

- It's not an easy or quick journey, but it's a bloody rewarding one. 

- You can't do it alone. If you think you can, you're kidding yourself. 

- You don't know what you don't know - you'll always be learning things you never knew you needed to know.

- Everything is about relationships. Start building them early and often. You never know who might be able to help you. 


Lastly, this is me behind the companies and experience: 
I love to: 
- Invent solutions
- Design product (UX - I'm great at functional, not so good at pretty)
- Support other founders (it's a bloody difficult journey)
- Inspire others
- Dream up & build the future!

It's incredible what can change in a year! 

Last year, I attended an event in December called FOCUS, to show off our new technology for people in locations in film/tv. It was the same event that a year prior, I came up with the idea. 

We had 1 client in the room! The wonderful Dadina Sagger who shouted about us from the rooftops! And through our talk and stand, we received a large amount of interest, BUT the technology was too early for many people. 

This year we've been diligently working with people who accepted its shortcomings and joined us anyway. 

I have most of them on whatsapp, and I've been using any chance I can to chat with them: gathering their feedback, having conversations about what could be improved & what they've always dreamed of having in a system like this. And I've been using these unlocked insights to adjust our roadmap. 

Our tech still has a long way to go, but it's come leaps and bounds from where it was last year. Massive kudos to Dharmil Trivedi for leading the team so well! And our consistency in talking, listening, understanding, and building has paid off. 

We'll have at least 9 key customers in the room (a small or big jump if you talk # or %), where they'll use a new feature from SuperScout to showcase their locations, but more importantly we won't be just some random name in the noise. 

I've called a bunch of potential customers to set up meetings and consistently they've said "I've heard good things about you! I'm very interested in a demo." 

FOCUS is in 1 month, and I can't wait! (and I'll try to take more photos this time - reusing this one has gotten old)

#networking #launch #customers #locations

Empowering filmmakers with radically better software (SuperScout); Dad, Founder, Mentor, Cat Dad

Received a lovely message this morning. 

4 of our customers were at Filming in England's mixer at #pinewoodstudios last night, and Gary Kinch messaged me this morning to say:

"There was lots of love in the room for SuperScout last night! All 4 of us, very happy!!" 

It's been an absolute pleasure working with you all so far. Looking forward to what the future holds. 

#locations #filmoffices #filminginengland 

Photo credit to Gary Kinch as I wasn't there myself unfortunately.

Remember when I used to share an awesome venue on Tutti (visit www.tutti.space) every week? 

Well, I'm going to try and get back to that, except with SuperScout because we recently launched our Showcase tier, where users can use our tech to show off their incredible locations to the world. 

We have some incredible early showcase sites of customers across England, Czech Republic, Wales, Rep of Ireland, and the US and I can't wait to show off what they have, from castles to cliffs, harbours to homes, mansions, military museums, and even an upside down house! 

If you want to see some incredible locations for film/tv, give me a follow! 
(You'll have to put up with a sprinkling of dad/founder posts too) 

Here's a quick teaser - a literal castle in north Wales! 
DM Richard Williams-Bulkeley if you want to learn more or shoot there! 

#locations #film #showcase

We received another glowing review this week, courtesy of Richard Williams-Bulkeley:  

"For a couple of years I have been looking for a way to manage my locations and their associated images to then communicate them to the Film and Media Industry. I investigated building a website, SmugMug and other image related options but nothing gave me what I wanted. My requirements were:

 - Easy to use
 - Flexible
 - Function rich
 - Slick
 - Fast
 - Professional looking
 - Mapping fully integrated, including Google Maps and W3W
 - Reasonably priced

At last I have found what I have been searching for and more! 

SuperScout met all my requirements. After 2 short sessions I have got to grips with the functionality (and I am a 57 year old location owner!) and am seeing the benefits every time I use the system. It really is fantastic, so simple and intuitive but bursting with really great features for location owners, location managers and scouts alike. It has exceeded my expectations in every way.

In addition they have provided superb support and added some great functionality I hadn't expected, for example the Past Productions Page. The speed of their development is brilliant and their team really understand the Film and TV locations world, its needs and challenges. 

SuperScout is a joy to use!" 


Here's an early version of Richard's new site, powered by SuperScout: 
https://lnkd.in/eV3JAviu

It's fantastic to have you on board Richard! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #product

This past week was really quite insane. I experienced all parts of my new normal in just a few days.

During the week I helped onboard some new customers including one who owns a castle (seriously cool!), and pushed new functions to SuperScout (with the help of Dharmil Trivedi). 

I've recently started coding more with the help of Cursor and Wispr Flow, but it's not 100% perfect, so I'm very happy to have Dharmil's expertise on hand to polish it off. 

I took my son out, either for walks or to play group to give my wife extra time to practise. She had a concert Sunday in Germany, that was going to be recorded for the radio, so... no pressure. 

Then we flew off to Germany. First to a place near Regensburg Saturday for rehearsals, and then Weiden Sunday for the concert: Schumann Quartet & Mozart Quintet. Very memorable programme. 

The concert was recorded by BR Klassik and will be broadcast on 2 Mar, if anyone reading this is in Germany and wants to tune in then! Their group's name is the "Barbican Quartet." 

And it's back to normal life (or as normal as it gets now...) today. Demo calls for potential clients in Hong Kong and Czech Republic for SuperScout, finalising onboarding for an awesome customer in England, and preparing for our big event in December. 

It's certainly not a boring life... 

#dad #travel #performance

🌊 This lighthouse pioneered the first failed toilet in maritime history—but the views are incredible.

Trwyn Du Lighthouse sits on Black Point at Anglesey's eastern tip (North Wales):
⚫ 29m tower with distinctive three black bands
🌊 Sea-washed stepped base designed for wave management
🏝️ Views across to Puffin Island and the Menai Strait
🚗 Small toll road access with nearby parking

What makes it work: Built in 1838 as a prototype for larger sea-washed towers, this is coastal drama with proper maritime architecture. The stepped base and rocky shoreline give you natural texture, and the contrast between the striped tower and surrounding seascape delivers strong composition options.

Previously shot here: House of the Dragon Season 3 (coming soon)

Get in touch with Richard (link in comments) to learn more.

SuperScout received another brilliant testimonial yesterday! 

SuperScout is everything we’ve been looking for in a location platform and we can’t recommend them enough. Their team have really set the bar when it comes to customer support and are always listening to the needs of the industry.

The location platform provides a clean and simple design that is easy to navigate and offers a customisable design to suit your branding. Uploading new locations is quick and easy, whether it’s from a laptop or while on the go from your phone. It’s also hassle-free for location owners to use when uploading their own locations, which makes the whole process much easier and quicker. No stress.

The AI function is a key feature of SuperScout. We often get very specific location briefs from productions, and the AI generated keywords are a really helpful tool for narrowingdown the search. Not only does this save us and industry a lot of time, it also helps to increase the presence of our locations and hopefully generate further interest. 

SuperScout has been a game-changer for us and we’re excited to see how the platform evolves in the future.

Thank you Vicki & Surrey Film Office. 
Thrilled to be working with you! 

#locations #filmoffice #testimonials

We have some amazing evangelists helping share our product! 

Last week alone, I had 3 amazing experiences of this.  

❤️ Someone I reached out to (I thought cold) had seen one of our customers using SuperScout on set, and wondered what it was! Apparently that customer then showed the whole team a quick demo! 

💙 Another person I contacted is in an association with a bunch of our customers and have consistently heard good things from multiple people over the past 10 months. She really wants a demo now. 

🥰 Last year I gave a demo to a room of industry people, and someone who had been in that audience has been following our journey. He heard some of his former colleagues were considering buying from one of our competitors, and he told them to consider ours, and reached out to me on the company whatsapp, to connect us. He did not have to! At all! But he went out of his way to try and help us, which is amazing! 

In fact none of these customers sharing our product have to. At the moment our network capabilities are limited, so it doesn't benefit (also doesn't hurt) our customers to have others using it. 

But people are going out of their way to help share the value of SuperScout, which is incredible!

Thank you to everyone talking about SuperScout and sharing it with colleagues. It's time for there to be a new standard in software for the locations industry. 

Time to Ditch Dropbox & Scrap SmugMug. They're not build for this industry, SuperScout is! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #locationscouts

In what would normally be most people's downtime from their startup, I'm running around Europe working as "Dad" and occasional videographer. 

My wife is a professional violinist, and the quartet she started 10 years ago with 3 friends at university (which is much like a startup) has become one of the leading groups in Europe in recent years. 

They won ARD, the most prestigious competition for quartets in Europe, 2 years ago, and now have agents in multiple countries. (It'd be like getting A-Tier VC funding after years of bootstrapping.)

So when I'm not running SuperScout, I'm busy helping her however I can, making her dreams a reality. 

Most of the time that means taking care of our little one while she's in rehearsals (which allows me to do a surprising amount of work) or on stage.

But she's recently given me another job: videographer. Using my little one as a counterbalance ("steadicam weight") I spend a lot of time filming behind the scenes of the amazing places they travel. Because she's now set herself a goal: to create a short daily vlog of her travels, because they really are fascinating. 

So I thought I'd share one (with almost entirely my camera work): 

IF you like this and want to see more of her travels / work, you can find her on
❤️  YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eRDGvmtP
💜  Instagram: https://lnkd.in/ewPZ2pQe
💙  TikTok: https://lnkd.in/evddT8My

(This also explains why I've entirely stopped going to startup events in London...) 

#contentcreator #dadlife #founderlife

Quick demo: Uploading locations to SuperScout 🎬

Whether you're managing a single location or thousands, here's how easy it is to get your files in to your database:

→ Drag and drop your files (photos, videos, PDFs)
→ Set addresses with autocomplete
→ Add private notes and details only your team sees
→ Set default public info—hide exact addresses, use a radius, control what gets shared

Built for location managers, scouts, production companies, and film offices who need to organise locations fast without the headache.

#locationscout #locationmanager #filmlocations

That awkward moment when your zoom view is disrupted by family! 

I did my best to hide the fact that I was working from my bed, because I'm currently on tour with my wife & son, and there's no available desk in the house. 

But then my wife unexpectedly asked me to take my son during the middle of the meeting. So I had to crawl to the edge of the bed (barriers on both sides for son), mid-meeting, and there's no hiding that... 

Then I had to hold my son on the call (pretty standard at this point - so that was fine) but I suddenly saw that the covers, my pyjamas, and the pillows and headboard were all in view... Oh dear!

Fortunately I don't think my potential clients are going to hold it against me - they're excited about our software, not worrying about where I have to hold meetings! But still, not what I'd intended. 



#dadlife 
#founderlife 
#customercalls

🏠 An upside-down house where gravity-defying scenes come naturally—and IKEA furnished the whole thing.

The Lakeside Upside Down House offers instant visual impact for contemporary productions:
🎨 Red wine-colored exterior with high-gloss finish
🛋️ IKEA-designed interiors with furniture mounted on ceilings
📍 Located in Lakeside Shopping Centre car park (easy crew access)
🔄 Mind-bending perspective shifts for unique shot composition

What makes it work: This isn't set dressing—it's a fully realized inverted environment where production can achieve impossible-looking shots in-camera. The compact footprint means fast setups, while the shopping center location provides nearby amenities for extended shoots. Perfect for commercials, music videos, or any production needing surreal visual hooks.

Get in touch with Gary Kinch at Essex Film Office to learn more about shooting here! (link in comments)

#FilmLocation #LocationScouting #UKFilming

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